On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal claimed that Apple Inc and Goldman Sachs are planning to launch joint credit card, carrying Apple Pay brand, at the beginning of the next year.
On Thursday, the Foreign Minister of Germany Heiko Maas and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that both sides are working to preserve Iran nuclear deal.
On Thursday, the US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he will have a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12.
Royal Dutch Shell has clinched a deal with its MLP Shell Midstream Partners to sell a stake in Amberjack Pipeline for $1.22B, the US pipeline operator announced on Thursday.
Sultan Muhammad V, the Malaysian King, has invited Mahathir Mohamad to establish the new Federal Government, adding he would swear in Mahathir as the Prime Minister at 1330GMT on Thursday.
On Thursday, Viktor Orban has been reelected as the Prime Minister for his third term at this position by the new Hungarian Parliament, following his Fidesz party's victory, which gave it a 2-3 majority in the legislature.
The number of applications for US unemployment benefits remained unchanged at 211K in the week ending May 5, while analysts anticipated a surge to 219K.
The British Telecom group BT is set to cut 13K back-office and managerial job positions, moving to a smaller base in London in its efforts to revive from an accounting row and make the firm more efficient.
Iraq is planning to shut down its border crossings and airports for 24 hours on May 12 during the election, the first held in the country after it defeated the Islamic State militants.
On Thursday, Canada's retailer Tire said it would acquire the Norway-based work-wear and sportswear brand Helly Hansen in a C$985M deal, including debt, seeking to add earnings.
France's oil giant Total agreed to acquire up to 50.8M shares in Clean Energy Corp in a deal worth $83.4M, becoming the biggest stockholder with a 25% stake.
The Japanese electronics company Panasonic Corp projects an increase in operating profit by 11.7% during this fiscal year due to higher automotive batteries sales.
The price of US WTI crude and Brent futures rose to new highs on Thursday, as the market projected tighter supply in response to possible US sanctions against Iran.
On Wednesday, Britain's investor I Squared Capital agreed to acquire the trailer leasing firm TIP Trailer Service from the Chinese company HNA Group.
On Thursday, France's manufacturing group Alstom announced it had clinched a deal with General Electric to exit three energy joint ventures in payment return of $3.08B.
Azora Altus, the Spanish property manager, has dropped its debut and decided to postpone the initial public offering on Spain's stock exchange due to an uncertainty arisen from the Blackstone's bid for Hispana real-estate unit.
Saudi's SABIC is seeking to acquire a 50% stake in the $4.6B Indian petchem plant supported by Oil and Natural Gas Corp, sources familiar with the issue reported on Wednesday.
Sonatrach, Algeria's state energy company, is planning to acquire ExxonMobil's 175K barrel-per-day Augusta oil refinery in Italy's island of Sicily amid North African producer's intention to lower its hefty fuel bills.
On Wednesday, Xerox stated it was eager to resume the merger talks with Fujifilm, seeking for better deal to the terms revealed in January that had spurred a fight over the firm.
The Bank of Japan is set to prepare markets for the bank's future withdrawal of the monetary stimulus program, a summary of an April meeting showed.
The UK house prices gauge dropped to the lowest level in more than 5 years of a negative 8 in April amid a slump in London and the country's southeast region.
Axa Equitable, encompassing the US operations for France's insurance giant Axa, raised $2.75B in the largest US IPO this year despite falling $1B short of a targeted share sale.
Royal Bank of Scotland stated that it agreed to pay $4.9B to resolve the US Justice Department probe into the bank's structuring and mortgage bond sale ahead of the crisis in 2008.
Quarterly earnings of Ford Motor are likely to be affected by shutdowns of the company's three US truck plants due to the fire at a supplier of key parts.